Disney Dish Episode 301: Why Disney supposedly passed on the chance to make “E.T.”

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Len Testa starts off this week’s episode by talking about why WDW’s Coronado Springs Resort may have changed the name of its Pepper Market food court. Then Jim Hill talks about how Southern Californians seeming to lose interest in Disneyland’s “Bear Country” area led to the creation of “The Country Bear Christmas Special” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill.
0:03.2	It's me, Lynn Testa, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, December 21st, 2020.
0:07.6	Happy Festivist and Merry Christmas.
0:10.4	On the show today, news and Disney Patents patents and in our main segment Jim talks about the history of the country bear jamboree Christmas show and I would like to dedicate this episode to my good friend Guy Selga.
0:23.6	Let's get started by bringing in the man who says,
0:25.9	the moral of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
0:28.7	is that any deviation from the norm will be punished unless it's exploitable. It's Mr. Jimmy, Jim, how's it going?
0:34.5	Oh, LAN.
0:36.5	A little harsh for the holidays was it?
0:40.1	It touched too much reality, but I had one of my great disappointments last year.
0:46.0	We were down at Walt Disney World in November, and we made a special trip over to SeaWorld because I wanted to get my picture taken with they have a walk-around version of Yukon Cornelius, but it turns out they weren't starting their Christmas celebration. I think it was there on Wednesday and they weren't starting until Friday and it just sort of crushed me
1:07.1	That's the one with the heat miser right?
1:09.0	I missed no no no no note that Santa Claus is coming to town. And again, are you getting your ranking bass?
1:14.0	A little scrambled here.
1:15.1	Wait, which one?
1:18.3	That was the one with the stop motion Rudolph one?
1:20.6	Yes, yes.
1:21.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. The problem is that if we get started with talking about
1:25.1	Rankin Best holiday specials, there are a great number of really terrible ones.
1:29.7	Denester, the long-year donkey, we won't even go down that road, Len.
1:33.8	It's just a... We should do a sideshow on next year on the Rankin Best Christmas episodes.
1:40.7	I know it's not Disney related, but it would be hysterical.
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